The Blog

Parliamentary Q& A “Burning rural plastics” JOHN HAYES (National—Wairarapa) to the Minister for the Environment: What steps is the Government taking to reduce the amount of rural plastic waste being burnt, buried, or ending up as countryside litter? Hon Dr …

Farmers are being encouraged to recycle and reuse rather than burn or bury thousands of tonnes plastic waste under a new scheme launched by the Government today. “It is neither clean nor green that over 7,000 tonnes of plastic farm …

Environment Minister Nick Smith today announced the Government’s accreditation of two new product stewardship schemes for recycling and reducing harm from used farm plastics and glass packaging. “Product stewardship schemes are an excellent way of getting all parties involved in …

Summer no longer means a heap of sodden, stinking, filthy silage wrap for Inglewood farmer Gary Kemp. In the past, he’s wasted glorious summer days getting rid of the rubbish from winter feed stacks, but now he’s joined a small …